Google Wireless?

[Drachen]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/23/39...sh-partnership

Rumors have been swirling for months that Google has big wireless plans, possibly including a partnership with Dish, which hasn't been shy about telegraphing its intentions to build a cellular LTE network. Now, the pieces may be falling into place: Google is planning to build a secret wireless network on its Mountain View campus.

According to FCC filings spotted by wireless engineer Steven Crowley, it's a pretty hefty test: Google says it will use up to 50 base stations and 200 "user devices" (perhaps Android smartphones?) during the experimental period. Intriguingly, the temporary wireless network will operate in two narrow slivers of the 2.5GHz frequency band, which just so happens to be the territory of Clearwire — the same Clearwire which Dish is trying to purchase.

Now, Google's no stranger to crazy experiments, and not all of them will necessarily change the world: for every self-driving car and wearable display, there's an army of employees working on personal engineering projects. But it doesn't sound like that's what's happening here. When Google's lawyers sought to have parts of the FCC filing redacted, their argument was this: "The information for which confidential treatment is sought concerns the highly compe ive consumer electronics market." Italics added for emphasis.

Both Google and Clearwire declined to comment to The Wall Street Journal.

This would be awesome! (well, not necessarily the LTE on 2.5 Ghz, but I think that Dish has some other lower frequency bandwidth).

[TeyshaBlue]

Ok, I'm game. What's the issue with LTE on a 2.5Ghz band?


*Prepares to be educated*

[Cry Havoc]

Higher frequencies get better penetration through buildings and other structures. Knowing Google, it's likely going to be very reliable and fast as well.

[TeyshaBlue]

...and Havoc's all about better penetration.

[TeyshaBlue]

Sorry...couldn't pass it up.

[Drachen]

Ok, I'm game. What's the issue with LTE on a 2.5Ghz band?


*Prepares to be educated*

Go find my comment in the comments section. I sound sthuper sthmart.

[Drachen]

Higher frequencies get better penetration through buildings and other structures. Knowing Google, it's likely going to be very reliable and fast as well.

100% false.

[Drachen]

Ok, I'm game. What's the issue with LTE on a 2.5Ghz band?


*Prepares to be educated*

Go find my comment in the comments section. I sound sthuper sthmart.

Just realized that my comment only halfway answers your question. Higher frequencies can carry far more information than lower frequencies, but cannot penetrate as well as lower frequencies. This is why Sprint's Wimax failed. Theoretically Wimax is a far better tech than LTE, but Sprint handicapped it by putting it so high on the frequency band. They put it there though because Clearwire had to use it or lose it.

[TeyshaBlue]

Screw this. Google needs to stop. They’re doing too much!
Apocalypse!!!

[TeyshaBlue]

Sounds like you.....lololol

[TeyshaBlue]

Another problem is that when it rains you wouldn’t have very good signal. When the signal gets above 2 Ghz it gets close to the harmonic resonance of the hydrogen bonds in the water molecule. This distorts the signal and essentially acts as a moving wall for that signal.







Too many wordeses.

[TeyshaBlue]

And there's no ing way you knew that!

[ElNono]

Hope is a mesh network... free to boot

[Drachen]

And there's no ing way you knew that!

It is my doppelganger.... or maybe I am his doppelganger.

[Drachen]

It is my doppelganger.... or maybe I am his doppelganger.

Either way, someone's getting doppeled up the ass.

[Drachen]

sounds like who?

[Drachen]

Who says apocalypse

[Drachen]

Yes I am following your lead, TB, and ing all over this thread.

[TeyshaBlue]

[Nathan Explosion]

Just realized that my comment only halfway answers your question. Higher frequencies can carry far more information than lower frequencies, but cannot penetrate as well as lower frequencies. This is why Sprint's Wimax failed. Theoretically Wimax is a far better tech than LTE, but Sprint handicapped it by putting it so high on the frequency band. They put it there though because Clearwire had to use it or lose it.

Okay, now I'll bite. Why do you say that WiMax is a better technology than LTE, in theory?

Too bad Sprint can't get their together and close the deal. Recently I've noticed an improvement in my LTE signal, but it still sucks that my fastest speeds are around Fair Oaks (27 mbps download). I switched from AT&T to Sprint because of my discount, and the hope that Sprints LTE network would get a more reliable signal. I didn't used to get a reliable signal at work in Boerne, but now I do, that's a plus. But now I want that signal to be faster. I was hoping the Clearwire deal would help improve everything.

[Drachen]

Okay, now I'll bite. Why do you say that WiMax is a better technology than LTE, in theory?

Too bad Sprint can't get their together and close the deal. Recently I've noticed an improvement in my LTE signal, but it still sucks that my fastest speeds are around Fair Oaks (27 mbps download). I switched from AT&T to Sprint because of my discount, and the hope that Sprints LTE network would get a more reliable signal. I didn't used to get a reliable signal at work in Boerne, but now I do, that's a plus. But now I want that signal to be faster. I was hoping the Clearwire deal would help improve everything.

If I remember correctly WIMAX can theoretically transmit farther (30 mi/tower) and while this generation of wimax has a lower theoretical max than this gen LTE (75 v 100), WIMAX 2 kills LTE-A (1GBs v 300 MBs).